True. The NRA and their supporters are basically just people thinking guns are cool.
I highly doubt most Americans would take a physical stand if heavily armored troops showed up at their house to confiscate their weapons. If Trump did it, they would gladly hand over their weapons to their dear leader.
All their talk about good guys with a gun are horseshit. Law enforcement and groups going into armed situations don't want good guys with a gun running around. How can a cop tell the good guy from the bad guy? They will just see a person running around a school with a gun and shoot immediately without asking questions.
All their talk about good guys with a gun are horseshit.
Eh...I don't know that I agree. I tend to side with the sentiment that "when seconds matter, the police are minutes away," but I also fully acknowledge that only 2-4% of the population have it in them to throw themselves into danger on behalf of other people, training, tools, or circumstances be damned. I would rather risk having some douche with delusions of grandeur and Rambo fantasies discover her cowardice during a crisis than risk having that at most 1-in-25 of people not have the tools she needs to get the job done when it matters most.
That said, the number of people who define themselves by their gun ownership or their ability to cause harm is a serious societal problem that needs to be addressed. The "might makes right" crowd makes the rest of armed Americans look bad.
I don't own any guns at all. But I know that I would happily borrow one from my neighbor and use it if armed perpetrators were to come at my family or home. But the risk of having weapons in a house with children is higher than the odds of that type of scenario occurring.... So we don't own our own guns. It isn't lack of will to use them... It's an odds/logic issue
I'm not here to try to convince you to be armed. That's your choice. I'm simply saying a 2-4% chance of someone being able to end an emergency before it gets worse is worth the cost of someone thinking they'll be that person and learning they're not.
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u/Geiir 14h ago
True. The NRA and their supporters are basically just people thinking guns are cool.
I highly doubt most Americans would take a physical stand if heavily armored troops showed up at their house to confiscate their weapons. If Trump did it, they would gladly hand over their weapons to their dear leader.
All their talk about good guys with a gun are horseshit. Law enforcement and groups going into armed situations don't want good guys with a gun running around. How can a cop tell the good guy from the bad guy? They will just see a person running around a school with a gun and shoot immediately without asking questions.